| Also, she had been asked to join study groups, but the husband was jealous, and forbade her from meeting with other students. |
| I suffered from an affection of the sight, which forbade all use of the eyes for purposes of study. |
| The Tokugawa shoguns forbade the building of any ships large enough to sail the open ocean, and no one was allowed to leave the country. |
| They compelled the sisters to leave their convent and forbade the townspeople to lease us property. |
| As a telepath, she could technically read a refugee's every thought, but her morality forbade this intrusion. |
| The blue laws of New England forbade the playing of cards and other common games on the Sabbath. |
